Cups and PostScript problem: lpr file.ps not printing

Posted by jason on Feb. 17, 2012, 12:38 p.m.
Tags: cups linux printing

I was having an issue with a perfectly valid postscript file that wasn't being printed when sending it to the printer with the lpr command.

It turns out that cups likes to run postscript files through filters before sending it to the printer. Consider this from my /var/log ...